Hello, everyone. There was no post yesterday because there was not enough wifi in the building to use it in the room.
We walked to Villafranca on a pleasant day, with dry weather for most of the day and sunshine for part of the day. On the way to Villafranca we found a little museum about the vines and wines of the Bierzo region. (Bierzo has an official origin system for wines, in which if the grape varieties, growing methods, and processing qualify the vintner can label his wines as Bierzo wines.) They had a number of pieces of equipment and other displays available for viewing.
I guess this art piece is an old fashioned wine bottle?
Villafranca has the distinction of having a Pardon Door. There are only 2 on the Camino before Santiago. The idea was that people traveling to Santiago might fall ill en route and be unable to complete their trip to visit the shrine.(As in by becoming disabled or dying. Travel was a lot more difficult in the middle ages.) If they made it as far as a church with a Pardon Door, they could still obtain the graces they would have gotten in Santiago.
We spent the night in a former collegio, a school for older students rather like high school.
Our room had something I had never seen before: an electric toilet seat. We didn't try out its functions because the controller was labeled entirely in, I think, Japanese.
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